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Power Man and Iron Fist was one of my favorite comics back in high school.

I remember getting the last issue where Iron Fist “died”. Then it was revealed in the Namor series that the real Iron Fist was alive and the one that was killed was some plant-based doppleganger.

My wife, Dawn, nicknames certain superheroes she doesn’t know the name of (usually the action figures at my desk or looking over my shoulder while I read a comic book). She calls Iron Fist “Fisty Claw” or “Dragon Chest”.

One of my all-time favorite comic series is The New Mutants, essentially the next generation of X-Men to come. I was in high school when the original series ran. And Warlock was my favorite character. He was weird looking, weird talking, and trying to figure out the world… Kinda like me when I was a teen. Big difference: I just wasn’t a techno-organic alien with the ability to shape shift and siphon off life force energy.
Another cool thing about Warlock was what made him a “mutant”. He came from a race of robot-like beings that valued tyranny, death, and destruction. A newborn Warlock would have to battle and destroy his father, a Magus, for the right to live. Our Warlock was born with the ability to feel love and compassion. Unheard of in his race. He chose to flee his home world which led him to Earth and the New Mutants.

My buddy, Zeb Wells, is writing the newest New Mutant series which reunites most all of the original New Mutants. Now, they are young adults and an official team of X-Men. And Warlock is back! He’s back and looking and talking as weird as he did back in the 80′s.